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Chinese Physics, 2002, Vol. 11(4): 379-382    DOI: 10.1088/1009-1963/11/4/312
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Investigation the positive moments on the MT curve of YBCO films measured by using zero-field cooling

Guo Shu-Quan (郭树权)abc, Wang Feng-Lin (王凤林)a,   Zhou Yue-Liang (周岳亮)b, Zhao Bai-Ru (赵柏儒)b, Gao Ju (高炬)c
a Applied Superconductivity Research Center, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; b  National Laboratory for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy Science, Beijing 100080, China; c Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Abstract  The superconducting transition of a YBCO film was measured by a MPMS-5 superconducting quantum interference device magnetometer, using a zero-field cooling process. The experimental results have shown that there are positive magnetic moment and positive peak on the MT curve. We have proven that these anomalous behaviours are due to measurement error, but not phase transition. We have proposed a simple formula to explain and to calculate quantitatively these anomalous behaviours. It was found that, provided dH>0.59Hp (dH is the inhomogeneous field of the remnant field, Hp is the fully penetrated field of the measured sample), the experimental results will be positive, not negative. If dH≥2Hp, the experimental results will be symmetrical to their real negative values. From the MT curve, which has positive moment and positive peak below Tc (superconducting transition temperature), we found a new possible method to obtain Hp of the measured sample.
Keywords:  SQUID magnetometer      remnant field      superconducting MT curve      flux pinning      positive moment      superconducting paramagnetic Meissner effect  
Received:  20 April 2001      Revised:  13 December 2001      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  74.78.-w (Superconducting films and low-dimensional structures)  
  85.25.Dq (Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs))  
  74.20.Mn (Nonconventional mechanisms)  
  74.25.Qt  
  74.25.Ha (Magnetic properties including vortex structures and related phenomena)  
Fund: Project supported by the National High Technology Development Programme of China (Grant No 863-CD090000).

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Guo Shu-Quan (郭树权), Wang Feng-Lin (王凤林), Zhou Yue-Liang (周岳亮), Zhao Bai-Ru (赵柏儒), Gao Ju (高炬) Investigation the positive moments on the MT curve of YBCO films measured by using zero-field cooling 2002 Chinese Physics 11 379

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